6. that path they went . . . .
7. fiercely they approached to the presence . . . .
8. he saw them and the earth . . . .
9. of stopping not . . . .
10. of the gods . . . .
11. the gods looked . . . .
12. violence(?) . . . .
13. Bitterly they wept at Babi . . . .
14. very much they grieved . . . .
15. at their misfortune and . . . .
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View of the Birs Nimrud, the supposed site of the Tower of Babel.
These fragments are so remarkable that it is most unfortunate we have not the remainder of the tablet.
In the first part we have the anger of the gods at the sin of the world, the place mentioned being Babylon. The building or work is called tazimat or tazimtu, a word meaning strong, and there is a curious relation, lines 9 to 11, that what they built in the day the god destroyed in the night.
